Solution process

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has forecasted that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is not likely to hold a congress in the next few months on a decision to lay down their arms, indicating it will not happen before the June 7 parliamentary election. 

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu remarkably shunned referring to the peace process led by his own government in the 100-article "2023 New Turkey Contract," which he read out along with his Justice and Development Party's (AKP) at party meeting on April 15.

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has voiced his support for Turkey's ongoing Kurdish peace process, speaking after a meeting with a visiting delegation from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Arbil on March 30.

"We have supported peace and its process since the beginning and we are ready to do our part," Barzani said.

It was President Tayyip Erdo?an who initiated the talks between the government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in pursuit of a political solution to Turkey?s Kurdish problem when he was prime minister back in 2012.

The co-leader of the Peoples? Democratic Party, which is playing an active role in efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue, has called on Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to take an ?open position? regarding the recent war of words between his Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Abdullah Öcalan?s March 21 message, sent from ?mral? Island prison where he has been kept since 1999 and read in Diyarbak?r addressing the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), which he founded in 1978, to take a decision to leave arms and shift to a non-violent strategy was something that the Turkish government had been expecting for more than six months.

The March 21 message of Abdullah Öcalan sent from ?mral? island-prison where he is kept since 1999 was rad in Diyarbak?r addressing the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) which he had founded in 1978 to take a decision to leave arms and shift to a non-violent strategy was something that the Turkish government has been expecting for more than six months.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he did not approve of a meeting and joint press conference between the government and the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) at Istanbul?s Dolmabahçe Palace on Feb. 28, which was presented as a turning point in the Kurdish peace process.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu urged people to bury guns in the ground instead of youths, referring to the decades-old conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkey, at a spring festival organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Istanbul on March 21.

All eyes will be on Diyarbak?r on March 21, where a letter from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, will be read during Nevruz festivities, marking the arrival of spring.